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| Chennai (Madras) |
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Chennai is a city younger than its image. In a time span of just over 350 years, Chennai has blossomed into a charming metropolis welcoming modern developments in technology, arts and craft.
It was in 1639 that Francis Day and Andrew Cogan, agents for the English East India Company, acquired a strip of land on lease from the Vijayanagar King. They built the Fort St.George, which remains of the city’s important landmarks and serves as the Government Secretariat today. It was built to set up a factory that served as a nucleus for British settlements that began to be formed.
Surrounding villages like Triplicane, Purasawalkam, Egmore and Chetput slowly merged with the new developments, to form Chennapatnam, as it was known. The city was called Madras till 1996 and then renamed Chennai. Today this buoyant metropolis presents an enchanting blend of the old and the new, the traditional and the modern. |
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| Tours around Chennai |
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South India Experience |
| 15 day tour; Best season: September-March; Highlights: Madras, Pondicherry, Tanjore, Madurai, Thekkady, Periyar, Cochin, Kathakali dance show, Alleppey, Backwaters, Kovalam, Trivandrum |
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South-India Trek & Safari |
| 20 day tour; Best season: October-December; Highlights: Chennai (Madras), Mahabalipuram, Madurai, Kodaikanal, Pundi, Kuthirayar, Munnar, Thekkady, Periyar, Kumarakam, Cochin, Calicut, Muthanga, Wynad, Mysore, Bangalore |
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